Micah 1:6

Therefore I will make Shomron like a rubble heap of the sadeh, 1 and like a place for planting a kerem (vineyard); 1 and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, 1 and I will lay bare her foundations. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

In Context

5Because of the peysha (transgression) of Ya'akov is all this, 1 and because of the chattot Bais Yisroel. 1 What is the peysha of Ya'akov? 1 Is it not Shomron? 1 And what are the high places of Yehudah? 1 Are they not Yerushalayim? 1

7And all the pesilim thereof shall be beaten to pieces, 1 and all the etnan (temple proceeds of cult prostitution) shall be burned with the eish, 1 and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate; 1 for she + 1:7 i.e., Shomron gathered of the etnan (wage) of a zonah, 1 and they shall revert to the etnan (wage) of a zonah. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of Melech Chizkiyah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea Ben Elah Melech Yisroel, that Shalmaneser Melech Ashur came up against Shomron, and besieged it.

2 Kings 19:25Hast thou not heard long ago, 1 how I have done it, 1 and of yemei kedem (days of old), 1 that I have formed it? 1 Now have I brought it to pass, 1 that thou shouldest be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 1

Isaiah 25:12And the fortification of thy high chomot (walls) 1 shall He bring down, lay low, 1 and bring to the ground, even to the aphar (dust).

Jeremiah 51:25Hineni, I am against thee, O Har HaMashchit (Destroying Mountain), saith Hashem, 1 which destroyest kol ha'aretz; 1 and I will stretch out Mine Yad upon thee, 1 and roll thee down from the cliffs, 1 and will make thee a har serefah (burned out mountain). 1

Lamentations 4:1How has the zahav lost its luster! 1 How is the most fine gold changed! 1 The avnei kodesh are poured out on every street corner. 1

Matthew Henry on Micah 1:2-8

Micah We shall have some account of this prophet in the first verse of the book of his prophecy; and therefore shall here only observe that, being contemporary with the prophet Isaiah (only that he began to prophesy a little after him), there is a near resemblance between that prophet's prophecy and this; and there is a prediction of the advancement and establishment of the gospel-church, which both of them have, almost in the same words, that out of the mouth of two such witnesses so great a word might be… Read the whole commentary →

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